A class of graduate students at the University of Pennsylvania has created a plan to rebuild the Northeast Corridor as a true high-speed rail line that would transport passengers from Philadelphia to New York City in 37 minutes.
Diesel Civil Trust
The big political event of the weekend was Glenn Beck getting at least 100,000 to hear him talk about faith and restoring America, and all that stuff.
And yes, the level of motivation on the right is bad news for the Democrats.
Gene Simmons vs. The Fed
(WIRE/FFF) – What happens when the military is used in a police capacity? You get a “war on terrorism,” one in which people think that the laws of war now apply to the situation. But in actuality, nothing could be further from the truth. What you actually get is a criminal-justice problem that inevitably goes horribly awry, causing the problem to escalate into a deadly and destructive horror story.
JACKSON HOLE, Wyo. — The American economy could experience painfully slow growth and stubbornly high unemployment for a decade or longer as a result of the 2007 collapse of the housing market and the economic turmoil that followed, according to an authority on the history of financial crises.
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I love the Bohemian Grove stuff…
27. Bohemian Grove: For years, many conspiracy theorists were saying that the rich and powerful met every year in the woods and worshiped a giant stone owl in an occult fashion. It turns out, ABC, CBS, NBC, and many other credible news agencies investigated this and found out, its true.
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Skull of the Day: Noah Scalin of Skull-A-Day constructed a skull from 375 acrylic-encased brain slices for The College of Physicians of Philadelphia’s Mütter Museum.
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Skull of the Day: Noah Scalin of Skull-A-Day constructed a skull from 375 acrylic-encased brain slices for The College of Physicians of Philadelphia’s Mütter Museum.
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Sales of previously owned homes in the United States plunged 27 percent in July, reaching the lowest level since at least 1999.
From the report: United States law enforcement agencies, from the FBI to local police, have a long history of spying on American citizens and infiltrating or otherwise obstructing political activist groups. Political spying was rampant during the Cold War under the FBI’s COINTELPRO, the CIA’s Operation Chaos, and other program.
“Well let me tell you about Halliburton, the company I ran. I’m very proud of what I did at Halliburton and the people of Halliburton are very proud of what they’ve accomplished. And, uh, I, frankly, uh, don’t feel any need to apologize for the way I’ve spent my time over the last five years as the CEO and chairman of a major American corporation.” — Vice President Dick Cheney in ‘Fahrenheit 9/11’
Michael Moore has uploaded a very important scene from his documentary ‘Fahrenheit 9/11’ to his YouTube account. The military industrial complex was something Eisenhower and Roosevelt warned us about and it continues to be ever more relevant as our wars progress into what feels like a never ending saga of conflict.
U.S. pay TV subscriptions have declined for the first time in history this quarter, according to new data from SNL Kagan. The business intelligence company reports that cable companies lost 711,000 subscribers, which represents the biggest quarterly loss in cable TV’s history. Six out of eight cable TV operators also reported their worst subscriber losses ever last quarter.
New Numbers Reveal: Cord Cutting Is Real (via tedr) (via mikehudack) (via sectionfive) (via soupsoup)
I actually think most people don’t want Google to answer their questions,” he elaborates. “They want Google to tell them what they should be doing next.
Holman W. Jenkins Jr.: Google and the Search for the Future - WSJ.com
There are people whose jobs require some degree of worst-case thinking. I am one of them. Whole teams of threat assessment practitioners in my firm Gavin de Becker and Associates, spend their time developing contingency plans and responses to cover a variety of unfavorable outcomes. For example, making arrangements for a controversial public figure to give a speech at a rally about an emotionally charged political issue calls for contingency plans about many kinds of things that could happen, but we put more effort into those possibilities that are most likely.
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